Comic Talk and General Discussion

Today, on fathers day, a young man was eaten by an alligator in the pearl river here in my lovely state of Mississipi, about 20-30 minutes from where i live.

As soon as the news story gets on the website i'll link it, but I am completely at a loss for how something like this could happen. I have not ever heard of anything like this happening in…well a really really really long time.

Honestly I haven't heard of a kid being eaten by anything in while. I remember a guy getting crushed by a trained bear or the attack on Roy (of Siegfried & Roy) by one of their white tigers a few years ago.

But in this case I can't help but wonder where the parents where when all of this happened. There are just some “accidents” that aren't always accidental.

In Australia here people are taken by big salt-water crocodiles… they really are very dangerous. I imagine Alligators are much the same. Best to stay well away from places or bodies of water where you know them to be.

ozoneoceanIn Australia here people are taken by big salt-water crocodiles… they really are very dangerous. I imagine Alligators are much the same. Best to stay well away from places or bodies of water where you know them to be.

Good advice. I stay away from large bodies of water and rivers as well. There was a shark attack in the mainland U.S. a while back. What people thought was a great white attacking people in a river could've been a bull or tiger shark; I know one of those shark types have the ability to swim in both fresh and salt water and they eat ANYTHING!

Man sorry that his family has to deal with that. You know for a fact he did not die in peace. How did it happen did? Well that last time I saw an gator attack was on tv when he pit off a guys arm and kept rolling and rolling tell it came off. OMG. again what a sad story

My sister had her hand bitten by a crocodile just a couple of weeks ago. They couldn't get it to let go and it was jammed in there for ages…I can't remember how she said they got it out in the end, but I think they released the croc afterwards.

-It was a fairly young croc she and some friends had caught at a waterhole. I'd say it served her right that she was bitten. Crocs are protected here, unless they start stalking humans.

ozoneoceanIn Australia here people are taken by big salt-water crocodiles… they really are very dangerous. I imagine Alligators are much the same. Best to stay well away from places or bodies of water where you know them to be.

Talking about Australia, when I was their our guide told us the most people get killed by sharks in Australia than anywhere else in the world. I refused to go to the beach after…

JonkoTalking about Australia, when I was their our guide told us the most people get killed by sharks in Australia than anywhere else in the world. I refused to go to the beach after…

I don't actually know if that's true though, you know? I hear there are actually more attacks amd deaths in the U.S. than anywhere else, and South Africa has it's share. I mean, it makes sense in that in the U.S. there are over 300 million people and only 20 million here…

Maybe there are more attacks or deaths in Australia when you look at the ratios of attacks to population numbers though? That again would make sense in that a greater proportion of the population here live on the coast, there's more coast and the waters are less fished. :)